Congratulations to Dr Andrew Tridgell OAM. 'Tridge' as he is commonly known, received his Order of Australia Medal for services to Computer Science in the most recent honours list. His contributions to the field of computer science is well known, through software such as Rsync and Samba, but Andrew is also a pretty good chessplayer.
I first met him at the 1983 Australian Junior Championship in Canberra, where he finished ahead of me (as did the rest of the field!). When he moved to Canberra to work on his PhD, he joined the Belconnen Chess Club for a while. In the mid 1990's he was lecturing and researching at the ANU, where our paths crossed once again. He then combined his interest in chess and computers to develop the program Knightcap, which was one of the worlds first successful "self learning" engines.
As a player he was pretty god, despite his academic work being a priority. We played on the same team together in an interclub competition in the late 1990's, and if my memory serves me correctly, was responsible for winning a crucial game that gave us a win over the top seeds.
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